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@Dammit
The skills needed to be a politician are media based - two ex-journalists (Gove, Johnson) and one PR flack (Hunt) in the cabinet.
They've got the connections and the backing in the right-wing press, and that's most of what they need.
An expert on (say) social housing would never get anywhere in an election campaign as they'd reveal unpalatable truths that would be destroyed in the Sun/Times/Mail as an assault on house prices/income tax/society/the memory of Lady Diana.
Empty soundbites from an old Etonian on the other hand - boom, MP before you know it.